The item is a portrait of two Goldman boys, ages 9 and 12 years old. One is standing behind the ledge with a hand on it, and the other is seated infront of him on the ledge, with his hands in his lap. Both are facing the camera.

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Michael Marrus (b. 3 February 1941) is a Canadian historian of France, the Holocaust, and Jewish history. He was born in Toronto and received his BA at the University of Toronto in 1963 and his MA and PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964 and 1968. He is a professor emeritus of Holocaust studies at the University of Toronto. Marrus married Randi Greenstein in 1971 and has three children.

Marrus is an expert on the history of French Jewry and antisemitism. He co-wrote with Robert Paxton a book on Vichy France that shows that the antisemitism of Vichy was not imposed by the Germans, that at times Vichy was more brutal towards the French Jews than the Germans, and that the French state played a leading and indispensable role in organizing the deportation of Jews to death camps. Furthermore, Marrus and Paxton argued that Vichy was more brutal than other European states occupied by the Germans.

Marrus was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2008.

Scope and Content

The item is a portrait of a two year-old boy seated on a ledge with a toy in his hand, while facing the camera.

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Marrus, Michael R., 1941-

Subjects

Boys

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The item is a portrait of two children, age apprixamtely 6 and 1 years old, seated facing the camera. There is a strong likelihood that the wrong name was assigned to this negative by Sylvia as the Rasminsky family do not recognize these children.

Subjects

Brothers and sisters

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Rick Salutin (b. 30 August 1942) was born in Toronto and is a Canadian novelist, playwright, journalist, and critic and has been writing for more than forty years. Until 1 October 2010, he wrote a regular column in the Globe and Mail; on 11 February 2011, he began a weekly column in the Toronto Star. He currently teaches a half course on Canadian media and culture in University Collegeat the University of Toronto. He is a contributing editor of This Magazine. He got his BA in Near Eastern and Jewish Studies at Brandeis University and got his MA in religion at Columbia University. He also studied philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. He was once a trade union organizer in Toronto and participated in the Artistic Woodwork strike.

Salutin has a child with the fifth estate journalist Theresa Burke.

Scope and Content

The item is a portrait of a 2 year old boy who is seated with on e hand on his knee and the other in the air while facing the camera.

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Adrian Seguin was the son of Bertha (Tutzi) Haspel Seguin and George Seguin. He was also the brother to Natalie and Yvonne Seguin, one of which is posed with him in this portrait.

Scope and Content

The item is a portrait of a boy and girl, between 6 and 8 years old, seated together on a ledge, the girl in front of the boy. The boy has his hand on his knee and the girl has both her hands in her lap.

Subjects

Brothers and sisters

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File consists of notices and order information concerning the publication of a special illustrated Soviet Jewry Passover Haggadah by Mark Podwal. The Haggadah is a religious text which lays out the order of the Passover Seder ceremony.

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Item is a photograph of David Dunkelman and four other men walking along a boardwalk, likely in Atlantic City. Identified in the photo is (left to right): [Samuel Posluns?], Louis Gelber, Percy Hermant, [unidentified], and David Dunkelman.

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Major Ben Dunkelman was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) for his courage leading soldiers under his command while fighting in Germany in 1945.

Scope and Content

File consists of excerpts from the book, Canadian Jews in World War II: Part I: Decorations. The excerpts include an account of Dunkelman's heroic actions in the Second World War, along with a typewritten reproduction of this account.

Notes

Canadian Jews in World War II: Part I: Decorations was published by the Canadian Jewish Congress in 1947.

File contains two clippings from Tip Topics, the magazine published by Tip Top Tailors. The earlier clipping announces that Ben Dunkelman has gone overseas to fight in the Second World War; the later clipping contains a tribute to Rose Dunkelman, who died in 1949.

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Item is a photograph of Major Ben Dunkelman standing alongside an unknown soldier. They were billeted at a former German work camp in Doorn, Holland, which the Queen's Own Rifles liberated on May 7, 1945. Soldiers set up the camp to reference local landmarks in Cabbagetown, a neighbourhood in Toronto. There is sign behind them that reads: The Greatest Little Place in Canada, Cabbage Town.

Subjects

Soldiers--Canada

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Related Material

Library and Archives Canada Canadian Army Newsreel, No. 88 features the camp. The film has been digitized and can be viewed on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28ZkB4UX3BU